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Tradebook Resumes FX Trading
NEW YORK-After a six-week trading outage due to the foreign exchange (FX) industry's concern over the viability of its central clearing partner AIG, Bloomberg Tradebook FX is back in production, trading more than 40 currency pairs after partnering with…
Ivory to Take On Mainframes
ATLANTA-Service-oriented architecture (SOA) software developer GT Software plans to make its SOA development environment for mainframes, Ivory Service Architect, easier to integrate with more systems in the next release, DWT has learned.
Infront Buys Direkt For News, Estimates
Norwegian market data vendor Infront last week acquired Swedish financial news agency Direkt from the business information group Bisnode, to help ensure the continued independence of the newswire provider.
DJ Realigns EMG Services, Cuts Staff
Dow Jones' Enterprise Media Group, which comprises the vendor's Financial Information Services private equity newsletters, Content Technology Solutions (including newswires and Factiva), Indexes and Business Intelligence divisions, has laid off staff and…
Thomson Reuters Ups Prices, Freezes Some
Thomson Reuters will increase the prices for most of its financial products by 4.75 percent next year, according to a 2009 price list obtained by Inside Market Data .
Savvis Adds Connectivity Options
Network and hosting services provider Savvis has expanded the options available for trading firms to connect to data from exchanges and other trading venues in recent weeks, in response to client demand for access to more data, and data from new venues,…
Intel Launches Nehalem Line
NEW YORK-Intel is launching today, Nov. 17, the first product in a family of offerings built on its new Nehalem processor technology.
Shanghai Wind Gathers Force Outside China
China-focused financial data vendor Shanghai Wind Information is continuing its international expansion with the opening of new offices in Tokyo, Singapore and Taiwan next year, and plans to double its overall staff numbers in 2009, officials say.
LSE Migrates Italian Data to Infolect
The London Stock Exchange last week migrated Borsa Italiana's Italian equity trading onto the LSE's TradElect trading platform, allowing clients to receive Italian equity market data via the exchange's Infolect data distribution platform.
Nasdaq Tests Boston Version of TotalView
Nasdaq OMX will this week begin client testing of a new datafeed based on its TotalView-ITCH product for its Nasdaq OMX BX market-formerly the Boston Stock Exchange-which is scheduled to go into live production when the revamped market begins trading on…
Icap Buys Into Prism Valuation
Interdealer broker Icap announced last week that it has taken an equity stake in Prism Valuation, an independent provider of valuations for complex assets and structured securities.
Tenfore Rounds Out Asia Coverage
UK-based data vendor Tenfore Systems has added data from the Korea Exchange and the Taiwan Stock Exchange to its TDX consolidated datafeed, to expand its coverage in Asia Pacific.
Swiss Exchange Weighs Feeds as SWX Europe Bows Out
The SIX Swiss Exchange is likely to consolidate its own Swiss market datafeed with that of its SWX Europe (formerly Virt-x) subsidiary, after deciding last week to close SWX Europe by mid-2009 and migrate trading of blue-chip Swiss stocks back to its…
TNS Expands MTF Access, Low-Latency Services
Network service provider Transaction Network Services is expanding the number of European multilateral trading facilities to which it provides connectivity, and plans to offer new technologies already established in the US market to help European clients…
FTEN Adds European Destinations
NEW YORK-Prime brokerage customers of direct market access (DMA) and trading technology provider FTEN can now provide their clients access to European venues, DWT has learned.
Icap Starts EBS Update
LONDON & SINGAPORE-Interdealer broker Icap plans to roll out new features on its electronic foreign exchange (FX) trading platform, EBS Spot, on Saturday, Nov. 22, according to Icap officials.
Special e-FX Wizards
As foreign exchange (FX) trading volumes continue to break records, DWT European reporter Cecilia Bergamaschi discusses the evolution of e-FX trading platforms with Saxo Bank's head of product management Brian Kelly.
Nasdaq OMX Sets January New Quote Launch
NEW YORK-Exchange operator Nasdaq OMX Group plans to launch its second U.S. protected quote on Jan. 6, pending approval by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), according to officials.
E-trading Drives Institutional Adoption of Options
NEW YORK-Although retail clients have previously dominated U.S. equity options trading, institutional firms are beginning to take over the customer segment and will represent 57 percent of the client base by the end of 2009, according to a recent report…
Sungard Readies MicroHedge Release
NEW YORK- Traders of equities, index and futures options will have a more granular view of their trading risk as SunGard introduces intra-day decay tracking in the latest update of its options trading and risk management platform MicroHedge, according to…